[MD] subject/object: pragmatism

[Heather Perella]

     [Matt]
> I don't struggle with radical empiricism per se. 
> The part that strikes me as odd is how the notion of
> "pure experience" even survives once one becomes a
> pragmatist/radical empiricist.  If we follow Dewey
> in thinking there's no difference between experience
> and reality (which I take to be the purest
> articulation of the contention of radical
> empiricism), then how does one wedge in a difference
> between pure and unpure experience/reality, one that
> doesn't look like the appearance/reality
> distinction?  But more importantly, what would that
> distinction do if it wasn't leaning on the A/R
> distinction?

      What is unpure experience?  I understand your
trying to point out a difference in what reality is,
and how people come up with these different
philosophies.  If reality was experience, then why the
differences, what's making the distinctions.  I find
it is where you place your focus.  If you want to
focus on A/R distinction, then so be it.  Pure
experience is pointing out something more that doesn't
downplay appearance as non-reality.  Appearance is
just as acceptable as a reality as any other reality
notion.  It is this intellectual flexibility that is
able to point this out, thus, a notion that is not
coming from the A or just the R in the A/R
distinction.  Think of mu.  Mu is intellectual enough
to be understood, but it is not just A and not just R.
 Is this what your wondering about?  Also, experience
is not just an intellectual exercise in defining A or
R.  Experience is social, biological, and inorganic,
and let us not forget how all of these change with
events: dq.

thanks
SA


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